University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1985
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the Student Senate's opinion. Highberger introduced the petition as an amendment at Wednesday night's meeting.
Lonny Rose, an assistant athletic director, said he was pleased with the approval of the increase in the sports fee. Athletic Director Monte Johnson was attending a Big Eight Conference meeting in Kansas City, Mo., and was unavailable for comment.
The bill's stipulations concerning Timmons originally had been in a petition approved by the Senate University Affairs Committee on Monday. The petition was written by Amy Seeman of college of Liberal Arts and Science senator, and Amy Kinacdi, Nunemaker senator.
The petition was re-written by Allison young, Numeker member. The committee revised petition said that
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any person convicted of a sexual crime should not be allowed to represent the
Scott Lawrence, student University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board member, was a co-author of the bill to increase the sports fee.
Lawrence said he opposed the amendment, but Mark Sump, holdover senator and co-author of the bill, accepted it.
Young said Tuesday that she thought the petition should focus on the problem in general, not on Timmons.
Both petitions requested that Timmons' football scholarship and team membership be revoked. Both petitions were non-binding. The Senate's opinion to the Athletic Department.
not decided if it would cover expenses for implanting the air-driven device.
FDA officials in Washington said the surgeons violated federal law when they placed the mechanical pump into Creighton's short cavity without federal permission. But surgery had been made on yesterday no decision had been made on whether the agency would take any action.
The agency said its "role is not to second guess the practice of medicine," but noted Congress has determined "our society and the people would not be well served if every physician ... took it upon himself to use untried devices."
But Cecil Vaughn, who assisted Copeland in the implant, said at a Phoenix news conference that saving Creighton's life was important than following the letter of the law.
"I RESPECT the FDA and its guidelines, but I also respect my judgment" he said.
Vaughn, a surgeon at St. Luke's hospital in Phoenix, said he did not seek legal advice before the surgery and has had no contact with the surgeon during a report of the operation for the agency.
He said the implant took both physicians by surprise, since they believed it would be easier to live with them.
Beigel said Copeland was convinced the alternative to using the mechanical heart
would have been the patient's quick death.
When it was decided to implant the artificial heart, he said, Creighton's lungs were being clogged with blood because of a membrane he had been on a heart-lung machine.
"I don't view this as an experiment," Copeland said earlier. "I view it as use of the equipment."
The surgeons, after being informed of the FDA reaction, said they would still use the drug.
The designer of the so-called Phoenix Heart, Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon educated in Taiwan who immigrated to the United States 12 years ago, said he never used drugs for government approval because he had no funds to conduct the necessary research.
"The Jarvik heart research cost a million dollars, and I spent one 'cent,' he said in an interview. "Basically, I had no budget for the doctor, and thus, "I never applied to the FDA."
The Jarvik-7 blood pump was first implanted in the 1982 in Barney Clark, who died 112 days later. More recently, it was placed in permanent artificial heart recipients William Schroeder and Murray Haydon in Louisville, Ky., who are still living.
THE JARVIK device is the only mechanical heart sanctioned by the FDA.
Low grades may cause aid cancellation
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
At the height of midterm frenzy, many students worry more about grades than money. But some are forced to worry about both.
If students fail to meet academic standards, their financial aid can be refused or withdrawn, the director of financial aid said this week.
Pam Houston, assistant director of financial aid, said the government did not establish one basic standard for all universi- ties, but that it might establish one in the future.
Jerry Rogers, the director, said that about five years ago a federal mandate was begun that required colleges and universities to set some type of academic standards policy.
"I know there's been talk, though, of the government stepping in and having the Department of Education set the standards," Houston said.
SHE SAID THE financial aid office preferred having each university and college determine its own academic standards.
KU's policy evaluates the academic progress of those receiving financial aid every semester. Standards are determined
from the students' cumulative grade point
calculation, the cumulative credits and the
number of grades earned.
Students who receive financial aid are told of these standards in a guide provided by the financial aid office. Houston said students are必不可less for knowing the academic standards.
In past semesters, Rogers said, about 400 students were ineligible for financial aid because they didn't meet academic standards.
"HUNDREDS OF KIDS want or need money, so why should John Doe get the money when he can't make grades and other kids need it," he said.
Some students who fail to make the grade may manage to find tuition money elsewhere, Rogers said. But many do not return to school.
Students who are denied financial aid because of poor academic progress may appeal the decision to the academic standards committee in the financial aid office. If approved, the financial award could be reinstated in the middle of the semester.
As many as 500 appeals were made to the committee one semester, Rogers said. Each student's appeal is individually evaluated. The office does not keep a record of the
number of appeals that were granted. But during one semester about half the appeals were denied.
He said financial aid awards made in May were not definite. The financial aid office must evaluate students' grades and determine their academic progress for the spring semester before awarding new money for the fall. If students don't meet academic standards, they receive notices that their awards have been canceled.
In December and January, the office is busy evaluating the academic progress of students who receive financial aid to determine whether to grant aid for the spring semester.
The system is troublesome, Rogers said, because the office didn't always have time to evaluate fall semester grades and notify ineligible students before the start of the term. After all, they are returned to school, Rogers said, only to discover their financial aid had been revoked.
Rogers said some universities and colleges evaluated students' academic progress once a year and have a probation dismissal process. He also said KU's current policy for evaluation of academic progress was being reviewed to consider switching to an annual evaluation.
Bequests to help finance center on aging
The Kansas University Endowment Association recently received $1 million to help finance the center on aging at the University Center. Endowment officials said yesterday.
Russell Mills, directors of the Long Term Care Gerontology Center at the Med Center, said the bequests would provide money to generate new programs at the center.
The money was left by two granddaughters of Edmund M. Norrill, who was Kansas state senator.
One of the concerns for developing programs for the elderly is that many people are not aware of the problems of the elderly, he said.
In 1957, the two sisters, Helen Baker Lichty and Dorothy Baker Giles, established wills with parallel provisions to create the Morrill-Baker Gerontology Fund.
"There are so many who don't understand the process of normal aging." he said. "You slow down a little bit. You can't rebound from crises as fast. Your bones lose some of the minerals and the diseases that set in are devastating."
Lichty died in 1982 and Giles died in 1983. The Endowment Association received money from the Lichty estate in 1983 and the rest of the money for the fund was sent to the Endowment Association recently by the Giles estate.
The center focuses on research for improving care for the frail elderly, he said. It provides educational programs to teach
doctors and medical students how to work with very old patients.
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the College of Health Sciences, said the center provided important geriatric education for medical students and extended continuing education for health and social service professionals throughout the state.
The Med Center is planning to expand its programs to meet the needs and interests of the elderly, Clawson said. Bequests such as the Morrill-Baker Gerontology Fund help provide flexibility to proceed in the expansion.
Mills also said one of the problems of starting new programs was acquiring unrestricted funds.
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